The Negro in Sports by Henderson, Edwin Bancroft - 1939

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Washington: Associated Pub, 1939. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. photos, index, xvi, 507p. Original reddish brown cloth. 20 cm. Purple stamp ("Tynes & Day Sole Metropolitan Distributor 1871 7th Ave N. Y.") at bottom of title-page. One ink underlining. No jacket. An attractive copy.

Wash DC: Associated Publishers, (1939). Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 371p octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in red cloth. Inscribed by the author to Miss Shellie Northcutt in 1940. Unfortunately the next owner pasted her name and address on a piece of paper below the inscription.

Washington, D. C.: The Associated Publishers Inc., 1939. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Washington, D. C.: The Associated Publishers Inc., 1939. Sm 8vo. 371 pp. 2nd edition. Red cloth with black titles - about near fine in a very good minus jacket that has some soiling, dampstaining, and a small chip in the center of the spine, championing and teaching basketball to scores young black students. Now known as the "Father of Black Basketball." He was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013. From 1926 until his retirement in 1954, Henderson served as director of health and physical education for Washington D.C.'s black schools. Henderson was also an early pioneer of the NAACP. Signed on the front free endpaper: "With the best wishes of E. B. Henderson, June, 1940.

Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, Inc, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Second edition, revised. Tall octavo. 371pp., copiously illustrated with photographs. About fine in modestly chipped very good dustwrapper with a few very faint stains. This copy owned by a Hall of Fame college football coach, Harvey Harman (1900-1969), who played football for the University of Pittsburgh before coaching at Haverford College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers. Inscribed by the author to Harman with further collegial inscriptions from James Guy Tyson (1899-1970) Howard University football star, lawyer, and director of the American Red Cross; Augustus Oliver Thornton, educator and member of the Improved Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW); and two others. The event that appears to have brought Henderson and Harman together was the 1950 meeting of the Pigskin Club of Washington, a largely African-American fraternal organization based upon football and organized by Dr. Charles… Read More

Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers Inc, 1939. First edition. 8vo, [x], 1-371pp. Photographic illustrations throughout. Signed and inscribed by Henderson to Clyde McDuffie and dated in 1939 on the ffep. Maroon cloth stamped in black, nearly fine with some light use at corners and spine ends, scattered foxing to preliminaries else clean internally. Wonderful association copy of this landmark work from the "Father of Black Basketball," educator, and NAACP pioneer, Edwin Henderson (1883-1977).  Henderson was instrumental in introducing basketball and other physical ed. programs, including the improvement of facilities, to African American students in Washington D.C.  There he served as the first black physical education teacher in the District of Columbia.   This copy warmly inscribed to Clyde [C.] McDuffie, a D.C. resident and educator in the prestigous Black Dunbar H.S. who was an active voice in the segregation era, speaking out through letters.  Perhaps the most well known of these… Read More